Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight –56 kg	Charles Vinci United States (USA)	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan (JPN)	Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran (IRI)
Featherweight 56–60 kg	Yevgeni Minaev Soviet Union (URS)	Isaac Berger United States (USA)	Sebastiano Mannironi Italy (ITA)
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev Soviet Union (URS)	Tan Howe Liang Singapore (SIN)	Abdul Wahid Aziz Iraq (IRQ)
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union (URS)	Tommy Kono United States (USA)	Gyözö Veres Hungary (HUN)
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński Poland (POL)	James George United States (USA)	Jan Bochenek Poland (POL)
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg	Arkadi Vorobyev Soviet Union (URS)	Trofim Lomakin Soviet Union (URS)	Louis Martin Great Britain (GBR)
Heavyweight +90 kg	Yury Vlasov Soviet Union (URS)	James Bradford United States (USA)	Norbert Schemansky United States (USA)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	1	0	6
2	United States (USA)	1	4	1	6
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Total	7	7	7	21

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved 2006-12-21. 

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